Tag Archives: preaching

Teaching by relationship

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Kate Newman

I was flabbergasted under the morning light spilling through the stain-glassed windows. Could I teach with a baby in my arms? Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Ministry | Tagged baby, children, feature, humility, preaching, relationship | 6 Comments

Preaching tragedy

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Kyle Norman

I want to pose a question: Is a 13 minute sermon on the latest tragedy in the world helpful or edifying for the church? What do you think when a preacher ‘preaches tragedy’? Continue reading →

Posted in Pop Culture Piety | Tagged church, community, feature, preaching, Sermons, tragedy, world | 5 Comments

Building a preaching series-Hebrews and Job

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dawn Leger

In a soundbite culture, a preaching series gives the preacher the chance to delve more deeply into some of the theological foundations of our faith. Continue reading →

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Speechless when something needs to be said-September 6, 2015

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Dawn Leger

Today’s post is really just a way to open up a space in The Community for preachers to process our response to the refugee crisis. Sometimes we just need to wait another week for good news.. Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged feature, justice, preaching, refugees | 4 Comments

Leaving on more than a rude gesture: Mark 6:1-13

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Dawn Leger

How many of us have left a job, a project or, maybe, even a church as a cleric or a layperson and had the temptation to make a rude gesture as we walked out the door? By shaking our feet, we are leaving the dust/dirt/sand that belongs in that place there, taking as little of it with us as possible. Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged failure, feature, letting go, preaching, regrets | 13 Comments

Compare and contrast

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Naomi Miller

This week’s pair of stories from the Gospel of Mark beg to be compared and contrasted. Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged feature, gospel, mark, preaching, sermon | 2 Comments

Branches and coats: Palm Sunday 2015

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Dawn Leger

If you prepare the liturgy well, there is no need to preach, except to draw people’s focus to the liturgy. Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged feature, holy week, justice, liturgy, Palm Sunday, passion, preaching | 3 Comments

Choices

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Naomi Miller

In these readings for Lent 5 I see story of choices, laid out for us. God chooses covenant. God chooses death and resurrection. God, clearly, chooses us.
The immensity of that is really more than I can get my head around. Continue reading →

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Into resurrection kicking and screaming

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Dawn Leger

It is interesting that Jesus says quite openly that he will not only be arrested and killed, but that he will also rise again. And yet, Peter still tries to stop it. Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged church, community, feature, interim ministry, preaching, rural | 4 Comments

Epiphany 5 – Let’s go to the neighbours?

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Dell Bornowsky

It is proper that congregations, vestries, and clergies are concerned with what happens here. But it seems that Jesus’ sense of his place and his purpose in the mission of God was more than just having a satisfactory local ministry (here). As we follow Jesus will we also take responsibility to “proclaim the message ‘there’ also”? Continue reading →

Posted in The Preachers' Table | Tagged church planting, feature, mission, missionaries, outreach, preaching, Purpose | 1 Comment